Final Project: Minion

This project took all that I have learned through the graphic design course, the final project was to choose something and model it I choose a minion from the film despicable me. I first had to choose a photo to model off, then I had to use a range of techniques within the modeling program maya. This took a lot of learning, and patiences. The whole model started at a sphere and was transformed into a character. I faced many challenges, which I overcame, after a lot of failed attempts. But in the end I was happy with the final outcome.

Final outcome
(Yes he is in a Nappy/diaper)

Cornell Box Gif

Cornell Box

This box that displays shadows and light with objects that reflect or absorb the light, was made within maya, this program allows you to manipulate different shapes, and make the into a different shape/ object. It took me awhile to get the hang of it but I managed to in the end. I first created a box and added the other shapes within, I then added different types of material effects with color to the shapes within. blinn for example being shiny for metal, and a phong looks good as a glassy material. 

Maya Playing with shapes

In the program maya I learnt how to create and manipulate shapes this allowed me to create these two 3-D molded examples.

Head turn Animation

I created this short animation by drawing different frames into illustrator, then saving the separate layers as jpegs ,  this created a sequence of pictures that made an animation, then I put the frames into after effect and made it into a movie file. Finally I put the movie file into photoshop to create a gif.

Character Design

I created this little Box Robot first by drawing a few different ideas on a character sheet, then I developed one main idea into the character he is, The I transferred my design to illustrator and used separate layers to improve the line quality for the illustration.

Character Sheet

Box Robot

The walk cycle

I created this walk cycle with pencil then took pictures of my illustrations, I then added it into after effects which took the photos and mad them into a movie I had to adjust the time and placing of the frames, I then saved the file as a gif to upload to my blog.